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Buckingham, Colorado

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Raymer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80742. The Survey maps it on the Buckingham quadrangle.

Buckingham within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Buckingham: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pawnee Buttes N.E.Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Pawnee Buttes N.E. DepositUranium, VanadiumOccurrence1971

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckingham in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 5 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994HailBuckingham$50,000Golf ball-size hail broke windshields and dented vehicles as well as damaging roofs of buildings in Buckingham (40 miles northeast of Greeley).
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBuckingham-AWOS station K1NW located one mile north-northeast of New Raymer.
June 2019Tornado (EF0)Buckingham-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field, no damage was observed.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Buckingham-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field. No damage was observed.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Buckingham-A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Buckingham-A small tornado touched down in open country but did no damage.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Buckingham-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2019HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 2019HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 2019HailBuckingham-no account filed
September 2019HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 2017HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 2017HailBuckingham-no account filed
July 2016HailBuckingham-no account filed
August 2013HailBuckingham-no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBuckingham-no account filed
June 2009HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 2007HailBuckingham-no account filed
July 2007HailBuckingham-no account filed
April 2000HailBuckingham-no account filed
September 1998HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 1998HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 1998HailBuckingham-no account filed
May 1998HailBuckingham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
New Raymer7.2 miles7
Raymer7.2 miles7
Keota7.6 miles13
Stoneham16.5 miles7
Briggsdale18.5 miles14
Fosston20.6 miles12
Avalo21.4 miles7
Grover21.7 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BuckinghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24884887The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182777. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.